WSJ: Hackers Breach Joint Strike Fighter Project

Citing unnamed current and former government officials, The Wall Street Journal reported that hackers compromised the security of the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project. The breach resulted in un-authorized access and copying of several terabytes of data related to key portions of the aircraft, including its design and electronics, according to the article. The Wall Street Journal article further places the breach in the context of other recently reported hacks, such as intrusion of the nation's electrical grid. http://online.wsj.com/...

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Occam Networks Adds New Optical Network Terminals (ONTs)

Occam Networks has introduced three new optical network terminals (ONTs) designed to help service providers deliver a full array of FlexPlay fiber services for their business and residential subscribers.The Occam ON 2501, ON 2534 and ON 2568 complement Occam's existing suite of GPON and Gigabit Ethernet FTTP ONT products and are optimized to deliver services such as traditional telephone, high-speed data and entertainment services when deployed with the BLC 6322 GPON optical line terminal.Connectivity for business applications: The Occam ON 2568...

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Reliance Globalcom offers Digital Film Distribution Service

Adlabs Films, India's largest entertainment conglomerate, is using Reliance Globalcom's global network to deliver movies to screens in the U.S. Specifically, Reliance Globalcom's privately owned global fiber-optic network has enabled Adlabs to move its content more efficiently, dramatically reducing delivery times by 50-90 percent while securing the encrypted content during the transport process. Reliance Globalcom said its network provides the capacity to support the transport of large volumes of content simultaneously, including files as large...

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Harmonic Introduces Video Quality Monitoring Solution

Harmonic introduced its video quality (VQ) monitoring and optimization software, a new solution suite designed for broadcasters and service providers.The IRIS software gives operators the tools to maximize video quality in real-time for the entire program lineup, offering end users a better viewing experience. The information provided by IRIS allows service providers to optimize bandwidth utilization by more effectively balancing the distribution of channels across their multiplexes.IRIS delivers a variety of real-time QoS measurements or scheduled...

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Sprint Reduces its Carbon Emissions

As the result of an internal audit of its IT operations, Sprint cut approximately $20 million worth of operating costs and reduced the company's overall IT carbon footprint by approximately 10,450 metric tons. Sprint said its efforts to decrease mounting maintenance and support costs led it to retire underutilized applications, eliminate and redeploy servers, and free data center capacity, all of which decreased carbon emissions and reduced power...

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Bluetooth 3.0 Promises Speeds of up to 24 Mbps via 802.11

The Bluetooth SIG formally adopted Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 + High Speed (HS), or Bluetooth 3.0.This new specification release includes several major enhancements:Generic Alternate MAC/PHY (AMP)802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL)Generic Test MethodologyEnhanced Power ControlUnicast Connectionless DataBluetooth 3.0 leverages the 802.11 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) to enable data transfers at the approximate rate of 24 Mbps. In...

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Motorola Expands WiMAX Network for Taiwan's Far EasTone

Taiwan-based Far EasTone Telecom (FET) has awarded Motorola additional contracts to expand its WiMAX network in Taichung, Taiwan. The deal follows previous WiMAX contracts with FET signed in 2007. The projects will boost network performance and provide new management features, preparing FET for the commercial launch of mobile broadband services by the end of 2009.Under the contract, Motorola will deploy its WAP access point portfolio, its WiMAX...

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Aricent to Deliver Multimedia Codecs to Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson has selected Aricent's multimedia encoders and decoders (codecs) for inclusion in its next generation, Symbian operating system-based mobile phones.Aricent's Multimedia Suite includes a range of applications and codecs that enable handset manufacturers to quickly launch highly differentiated products."Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has clearly established a leadership position in mobile multimedia devices," said Sanjay Dhawan,...

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Broadcom Reports 24% Q1 Drop, Bids to Acquire Emulex for Fibre Channel

Broadcom reported net revenue for the first quarter of 2009 of $853.4 million, a decrease of 24.2% compared with the $1.127 billion reported for the fourth quarter of 2008 and a decrease of 17.3% compared with the $1.032 billion reported for the first quarter of 2008. Net loss (GAAP) was $91.9 million, or $.19 net loss per share (basic and diluted), compared with GAAP net loss of $159.2 million, or $.32 net loss per share (basic and diluted), for the fourth quarter of 2008, and GAAP net income of $74.3 million, or $.14 per share (diluted), for...

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AT&T Unveils "Behind the Firewall" Content Distribution Solution

AT&T introduced a fully managed private content distribution solution simplifying enterprises ability to deliver rich media assets behind the corporate firewall, such as live or on-demand video streaming or large multimedia files for download.AT&T said its Private Content Distribution Service (AT&T PCDS) removes the complexity of managing the technical requirements necessary to deliver content across a corporate-wide network. Companies...

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Comcast to Launch 50 Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 in San Francisco

Comcast is launching DOCSIS 3.0 service in San Francisco and on the peninsula, offering its Extreme 50 tier with download speeds of up to 50 Mbps. Wideband will also enable Comcast to double speeds for the majority of existing high-speed Internet customers at no additional cost. The company previously deployed wideband in the San Jose-Silicon Valley area, portions of the East Bay and the Monterey-Salinas area in March. http://www.comcast....

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New PBB-TE Standard (802.1Qay) Addresses Connection-Oriented Ethernet

A new IEEE P802.1Qay standard for connection-oriented Ethernet in Service Provider networks has completed the IEEE sponsor ballot process and entered the final phase of ratification. The goal is to provided connection-oriented characteristics and deterministic behavior for Ethernet in metro networks. The standard defines Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE), a technology that enables Service Providers to explicitly set up traffic...

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Cisco Enhances WebEx Collaboration Cloud for SaaS, Adds Security Products

Cisco unveiled a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture and enhancements to its SaaS-based Cisco WebEx collaborative applications. Cisco said it is pursuing a vision as "everything as a service". The goal is to give customers the flexibility to extend on-demand services into the on-premises network, and utilize the network as the platform for highly secure collaboration.The Cisco WebEx Collaboration Cloud is a purpose-built network designed...

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